This is an instance of the reckless mode in which the business of journalism is conducted here.
I made two visits this afternoon, one to a pothouse in Belleville, the other to a countess in the Faubourg St.Germain.I went to the former in order to find out what the Bellevillites thought of things in general.

I found them very discontented with the Government, and divided in opinion as to whether it would be more in the interests of the country to turn it out at present, or to wait, until the Prussians were defeated, and then do so.

They are all very angry at the counter-manifestation of the bourgeois against them in the Commune.

"The Government," said one of them to me, "is weak and incapable, it means to deceive us, and is thinking more of bringing back the Comte de Paris than of defending the town.

We do not wish it to be said that we compromise the success of the defence by agitation, but either it must show more energy, or we will drive it from the Hotel de Ville." I quoted to my friend Mr.Lincoln's saying, about the mistake of changing a horse when half-way over a river.